Mystic Writers
About Us
The Mystic Writers formed in the summer of 2017 in Mystic, CT, when an evening on a screened-in porch sparked interest in conversation, collaboration, and mutual support. We meet regularly to balance the professional necessity of working alone with the satisfaction of interacting with other writers. Eight strong, we are all on different paths – memoirists, novelists, journalists – and yet we have a common vision: to write as well as we can and to tell stories that matter.
Our Authors
Lisa Brownell
Fiction
Ruth W. Crocker
Writer
Susan B. Kietzman
Fiction
Jane H. Percy
Non-fiction, Poetry
The Latest from our Blog
The Gladness of the River
Walt Whitman’s Poem, “Crossing Brooklyn Bridge,” reminds me in Stanza 6 to be conscious of my river in a new way: “Just as you are refreshed by the...
Settling into the Sandhills
Two years after Jake started his sheep farm near Big Alkali Lake, he put on his best clothes and went to propose. He even knelt down. Lanna laughed...
Gotta Dance
When I wrapped up a career in public relations and editing, I looked forward to spending as much time as I wanted to writing fiction, but I also...
Who Will Get to Live Forever?
Books tend to arrive on my horizon when I need them, and that was the case last month when I read about a 50th anniversary, graphic novel edition of...
Fly, Button, Trick, Plant
What you’re about to read was written 15 years ago, for an NPR fiction writing contest. I can’t remember the word limit…but the entry was to include...
Hope, faith and book writing
Writing a book is a leap of faith – faith in yourself, in the years-long process of producing the work, and in the belief that the written word makes...
Get Me Rewrite!
You don’t have to be a journalist – although you may have to be of a certain age – to recognize the entreaty “Get me rewrite!” from vintage scenes of...
Lost for Words
Have you ever heard someone say, after a traumatic or startling event: “I just can’t talk about it right now”? They may describe themselves as “lost...
Hamlet and the Coach
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the most often performed play in the canon and the subject of an endless array of scholarly papers. So it’s not...
